Today, I observed Eleni tutoring Bianca for a maths session. Bianca is currently in year 7 and preparing for her upcoming end of term math exam, therefore the session today was based on preparing her for this upcoming exam!
Eleni initially went over all the topics with Bianca, doing a pre-quiz on the board, this quiz had questions from all the topics that will be covered in her exam, this includes, fractions, decimals and percentages (completing conversions), area and perimeter and geometry. Through this pre-quiz, Eleni was able to understand where Bianca is confident in and where she needs further improvement/ remembering some of the topics for the exam. Eleni re went over the formulas for area especially in harder shapes such as the trapezium, parallelogram and rhombus as well as composite shapes and how to split them up in order to find the total area. She further went over worded problems, as they were harder to solve, and went through the formulas/working out slowly and clearly to ensure Bianca was understanding well and able to complete them on her own. Eleni was very encouraging and patient when teaching these concepts, which made Bianca feel more motivated and confident to try the challenging questions. Eleni further used the resources and gave her homework based on both topics to allow for Bianca to complete further study at home at her own pace to reinforce the concepts taught in class.

Daniella Antoun